Hello everyone! I'm a first time poster, but I've been looking through this site ever since 2000 came along. I have discovered so many great B-movies through this site, like Riki-Oh, which is now amongst my DVD collection.

Anyway, I can remember seeing a couple of scenes from odd films, that I've never been able to put my finger on. Maybe you could help me identify them...

1. I can remember turning off my Nintendo as a kid, after a long gaming stretch, and stumbling across something very startling. It was a scene from what looked like a horror film, where this...thing...was tossing stuff at this guy from inside of what I think was either a cupboard or a cabinet, mostly glasses and dishes. The guy, who I think had short blondeish hair and was wearing late 70's/early 80's type clothing, was just covering himself against a wall, going "Aaaaaaahhhh!" nearly the whole time.

The thing in the cupboard was this little rubbery puppet thing...I guess it was a demon or something, because I think it had a little smile etched on its face, laughed at him at one point, partially covered by shadow in the cabinet. It was like a high pitched "Hee hee hee hee heeeee..." I turned the TV off a second later, just as a bowl was clattering on the ground, I think...I still haven't figured out what this was from, since I only saw a few seconds, and I was a kid back then.

2. I tuned into HBO once, and saw what I guess was the climax of some movie with a kid who had funky powers. For some reason, it was night, and he was engaged in battle with what looked like a freaky ventriloquist dummy, who was on the edge of his bed. The kid was somehow summoning all of his toys I think, and they were flying around, and trying to hit the dummy. It was really bizzare.

The first sounds like the scene could either be from "Gremlins," or "House II: The Second Story." The latter film features a baby pterodactyl from another dimension that hides in a kitchen cupboard and gives the film's hero a bit of grief.

The second film sounds like it is "Making Contact," the first big-budget film by the intensely evil Roland Emmerich. In that flick, an evil ventriloquist dummy butts heads with a child with supernatural powers. Check out www.imdb.com and see if these fit the bill.

im a fan of the ghoulies flicks and i dont recall any of them throwing dishes and its definetly not house 2 cause the pteranadon(sp?) doesnt laugh or throw anything it just squawks and runs around. though it could be critters 3 with leonardo dicaprio ( short hair like you described) there are scenes wiht some critter hijinx in a kitchen though idk if leo is in any of those scenes. hmmmm. funny thing i ran out and bought magic with anthony hopkins thinking it was "making contact" but magic is a great film none the less a bit dissapaointed that it wasnt the flick i was looking for.